Do people really do that? I can’t stand big, or any, logo on my clothing to be honest. I’d rather be solid colors or prints with better quality fabric than a specific brand. IDK if it’s the ADHD or the autism, but I hate logos on clothes.
The only “apparel” item I have with branding I have is a backpack with a Supreme look alike fake logo that just says Pretentious.
Are you asking if people wear clothings with big logo on them?
I am asking why it’s so fetishized.
Do people really do that?
My dude, all fancy, expensive brand have their logo plaster on their product. Uniqlo sell BRAND printed on their shirt, depend on who they work with at the time. People also wear shirt with band or pop culture printed on it as well. People pay premium price for bags like chanel or lv just for that logo. Ford have their stupid name displayed in ultra large size on their stupid truck front grille. It’s all brand ads.
This pisses me off so hard, I refuse to buy apparel that has anything more than a logo on it. I am giving you my money for your design, I’m not paying you to be a walking billboard I’m paying you to have clothing on my body. It’s becoming increasingly harder nowadays to buy clothing that doesn’t have a quarter of the item taken up by some sort of brand name on it it’s ugly as shit and annoying
I’ve recently had to forgo my favorite style because you can no longer find it without having it plastered with brand or logo, it’s just a simple pair of sweatpants with a racing stripe down the side it does not need a brand name that takes quarter of the leg
If your luxury brand has a giant logo you are purchasing regular goods at an increased price.
Actual luxury brand items are typically not heavily branded.
I’ve got some old polo shirts from my dad’s closet that I still wear. The material is sturdy, easy to clean, and doesn’t noticeably fade over time. Tiny little logo on the breast, but it’s this shade of blue I swear you can’t find in stores anymore. Looks good, fits good, feels good on my skin. This shirt is easily 20 years old.
I got to the store to buy a new polo and the logo is practically across my chest. The stitching is already fraying. Fades after the first wash. Paper thin and easily torn. It’ll be in the rag pile inside two years.
They really don’t make’m like they used to
You can find nice polo. But it’s $100+ shirts not sold at the outlets.
You can find good shirts, but polo has gone to shit. And a bunch of the major outlets have gone to shit. You can’t find decent clothes at Dillards or even Macys anymore. Its all been Walmart-ified.
And even the boutique brands very rapidly decay, once they cement their reputations as “high quality”.
To me, the weirdest / funniest example of this is “Superdry”.
First of all, the name comes from alcoholic drinks without a residual sweetness. That is a ridiculous name to use for something that’s mostly made out of water. But, a lot of food-related words are odd. But, then you apply it to a clothing brand, where “dry” has a different and much more normal meaning. It sounds like it should be a brand of special wet-weather gear.
As for the Japanese-style characters on it, the British founders of the clothing brand collected a lot of random packaging from things in Tokyo, and then slapped mangled versions of it on American-style clothing. Of course, it never sold well in Japan because they actually knew what he random text actually meant. It’s like the famous “Engrish” text that you sometimes see people in Asia wearing.
So, people were wearing a premium to wear clothing that had very basic styling, featured huge company logos, and nonsense faux-Japanese characters.
I’ve never owned a branded piece of clothing in my life aside from a Roots sweatshirt when I was a teenager, when that was a Big Deal, and I don’t understand why an adult would.
My mother once convinced me to accept a Fender T-shirt from her (I’m more of an Ibanez guy, but still better than Gibson), otherwise unless people pay me I won’t wear an “advertisement” T-shirt.
I don’t mind wearing shirts with brands on em, just not clothing brands. I love wearing tshirts with old company logos or weird stuff like froot loops or a vintage coca cola shirt.
I’ll second that, I’m a fan of shirts from local establishments. I have one of a record store I like (actually two, one each from two diff local record stores), a couple local restaurants that are legendary hole in the wall types, local minor league baseball team, etc. I’m not gonna wear like, supreme, but some stuff like that is ok imo.
Dude at least pick a cool brand that has unique designs and art for each shirt like O’Neil, quicksilver, Roxy etc. Fuck I think even Hollister and clones had cite branded shirts.
Now it’s a red box that says Supreme. And apparently is lucrative because their website is closed? I’m too stoned for this shit
The obvious difference is, someone, somewhere out there will see you wearing/using that luxury brand and think “ooo, fancy”, and thus will think you are more “refined” for it. Whether you agree with that or not, that’s the reality.
nobody is going to think you’re more refined for watching a YouTube ad.
It’s is truly fucked up how corporations figured out how to sell their own ads.
Time to mention Bill Hicks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0
edit: wow, turning an image into a hyperlink is silly in Markdown
What is this boomer shit…
Found the walking ad surface!
Pro tip: Most company logos go off easily with precise sanding tools you can get in hardware stores. Coming from someone who’s had to buy the perfect pair of shoes (which were also the cheapest) which for some reason had one fugly logo on the back ruining it all. Sadly you can’t really return them after, so you can only really do it if you’re sure you will keep it, but sometimes that’s enough.
EDIT: To clarify - I totally agree with the comic. This isn’t an endorsement to buy brand clothing. I’m saying that sometimes you have no other choice, and this is the way to give the company the middle finger while still getting the quality you desire.
on a shirt?
I wouldn’t, but it really depends. I’m not saying you should just do this mindlessly. Sanding works well on those hard plastic blocks that they do sometimes put in the upper chest area.
